Republic of Korea

Summary

  • EAAFP Member since: 2006
  • Number of EAAFP Flyway Network Sites: 17
  • Focal Point Contact:
    • Mr. Jang Sung Hyun
      Director of Biodiversity Division Nature Conservation Bureau Ministry of Environment
      Email: shjang7@korea.kr
      Tel: +82 44 201 7245

Republic of Korea has been a Partner since 2006 (MoP1). It now has 17 Flyway Network Sites, the most recent designation being 2021, May. Republic of Korea’s importance for Key Species of the EAAFP includes breeding habitat for Black-faced Spoonbill, Saunder’s Gull (only in Songdo, Incheon on the west coast) as well as staging for many other migrating waterbirds.

  • Incheon, in the Republic of Korea, hosted the Third Meeting of Partners, in November 2008. Read the report here.
  • Songdo, in the Republic of Korea, hosted the Fourth Meeting of Partners, in February 2010. Read the report here.

Flyway Network Sites

Site Information

EAAF SITECODE NAME OF SITE SITE INFORMATION SHEET YEAR SIS UPDATED SITE PHOTOS VIEW IN GOOGLE EARTH
EAAF027 Cheorwon Basin n/a  View View
EAAF028 Han River Estuary n/a  View View
EAAF046 Cheonsu Bay  SIS 2014  View View
EAAF078 Gumi Haepyung wetland n/a  View View
EAAF079 Suncheon Bay  SIS 2016  View View
EAAF095 Junam Reservoir  SIS 2008*  View View
EAAF096 Upo Wetland  SIS 2018  View View
EAAF097 Nakdong Estuary  SIS  2018  View View
EAAF100 Geum River Estuary  SIS 2010*  View View
EAAF101 Yubu-do Tidal Flat  SIS 2011  View View
EAAF107 Chilbaldo Islet  SIS 2010*  View View
EAAF142 Hwaseong Wetlands  SIS 2018  View View
EAAF143 Janghang Wetland  SIS 2019  View View
EAAF145 Incheon Songdo Tidal Flat  SIS 2019  View View
EAAF146 Aphaedo Tidal Flat  SIS 2019  View View
EAAF148 Daebudo Tidal Flat  SIS 2020  View View
EAAF150 Ulsan Taehwa River  SIS 2021  View View

 

SIS indicates that the Site Information Sheet was last updated more than 6 years ago.

Site Details

Key Species of EAAFP in ROK

Shorebird

Anatidae

Crane

Seabird

Others

Curlew Sandpiper

Scaly-sided Merganser

Oriental Stork

Dalmatian Pelican

Black-faced Spoonbill

Red Knot

Lesser White-fronted Goose

Siberian Crane

Chinese Crested Tern

Japanese Night-heron

Great Knot

Long-tailed Duck

Red-Crowned Crane

Relict Gull

Chinese Egret

Asian Dowitcher

Hooded Crane

Saunders’s Gull

Swinhoe’s Rail

Far Eastern Curlew

White-naped Crane

Eurasian Curlew

Black-tailed Godwit

Spoon-billed Sandpiper

Spotted Greenshank

Cheorwon Basin

  

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Location: Cheorwon County, Gangwon Province (near DMZ)

Coordinates (lat, long): 38.25000, 127.21667

Area: 40 ha

Date of joining: 7 March 1997

Protection Status: Protected Area

Other listings: Important Bird and Biodiversity Area

Important for Anatidae, Cranes

Important species:

Anser fabalis (Bean Goose), Anser albifrons (Greater White-fronted Goose), Chen caerulescens (Snow Goose), Grus japonensis (Red-crowned Crane), Grus vipio (White-naped Crane)

Site Related Activities:

1st Crane School of Cheorwon (2019)

2nd Crane School of Cheorwon (2020)

Han River Estuary

 

Location: Goyang City, Gyeonggi Province

Coordinates (lat, long): 37.68920, 126.68400

Area: 381 ha

Date of joining: 1997 March 07

Status: Natural Monument

Other listings: Ramsar, Important Bird and Biodiversity Area

Important for Shorebirds, Anatidae, Cranes

Important species

Limosa lapponica (Bar-tailed Godwit), Limosa limosa (Black-tailed Godwit), Tringa nebularia (Common Greenshank), Calidris alpina (Dunlin), Calidris tenuirostris (Great Knot), Pluvialis squatarola (Grey Plover), Charadrius mongolus (Lesser Sand Plover), Calidris ruficollis (Red-necked Stint), Tringa guttifer (Spotted Greenshank), Xenus cinereus (Terek Sandpiper), Numenius phaeopus (Whimbrel), Anser fabalis (Bean Goose), Anser albifrons (Greater White-fronted Goose), Aythya ferina (Common Pochard), Mergus merganser (Goosander), Grus vipio (White-naped Crane)

Cheonsu Bay

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Location: Chungcheongnam Province

Coordinates (lat, long): 36.66667, 126.40000

Area: 15,409 ha

Date of joining: 14 May 1999

Protection status: Fisheries Resources Protection Area

Other listings: Important Bird and Biodiversity Area

Important for Shorebirds, Anatidae

Important species:

Limosa lapponica (Bar-tailed Godwit), Limosa limosa (Black-tailed Godwit), Tringa nebularia (Common Greenshank), Charadrius alexandrinus (Kentish Plover), Numenius phaeopus (Whimbrel), Anas formosa (Baikal Teal), Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard), Anser fabalis (Bean Goose), Grus monacha (Hooded Crane), Ciconia boyciana (Oriental White Stork), Platalea leucorodia (Eurasian Spoonbill), Platalea minor (Black-faced Spoonbill)

Gumi Haepyung wetland

Location: Kyungsangbuk Province

Coordinates (lat, long): 36.16667, 128.38333

Area: 760.0 ha

Date of joining: 2004 September 21

Status: Wildlife Reserve Area

Other listings: Important Bird and Biodiversity Area

Important for Cranes

Important species

Grus vipio (White-naped Crane), Grus monacha (Hooded Crane)

Suncheon Bay

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Location: Chollanam Province

Coordinates (lat, long): 34.83333, 127.41667

Area: 28,140 ha

Date of joining: 21 September 2004

Protection status: Protected Area

Other listings: Ramsar Site, Important Bird and Biodiversity Area

Important for Anatidae, Cranes, Shorebirds

Important species

Limosa lapponica (Bar-tailed Godwit), Tringa nebularia (Common Greenshank), Numenius arquata (Eurasian Curlew), Heteroscelus brevipes (Grey-tailed Tattler), Charadrius alexandrinus (Kentish Plover), Tringa guttifer (Spotted Greenshank), Xenus cinereus (Terek Sandpiper), Numenius phaeopus (Whimbrel), Grus monacha (Hooded Crane), Platalea leucorodia (Eurasian Spoonbill), Cygnus cygnus (whooper Swan), Cygnus columbianus (Tundra Swan), Grus grus (Common Crane), Haematopus ostralegus (Eurasian Oystercatcher), Numenius madagascariensis (Far Eastern Curlew), Saundersilarus saundersi (Saunders’s Gull), Falco tinnunculus (Common Kestrel), Calidris alpina (Dunlin), Tadorna tadorna (Common Shelduck), Larus ridibundus (Black-headed Gull), Antigone vipio (White-naped Crane)

Junam Reservoir

Location: Gyeongnam Province

Coordinates (lat, long): 35.18000, 128.41000

Area: 602 ha

Date of joining: 12 September 2008

Protection status: Protected Area

Other listings: Important Bird and Biodiversity Area

Important for Anatidae, Cranes, and Others

Important species:

Anser fabalis (Bean Goose), Anas falcata (Falcated Teal), Anas formosa (Baikal Teal), Anser cygnoides (Swan Goose), Aythya baeri (Baer’s Pochard), Grus monacha (Hooded Crane), Grus vipio (White-naped Crane), Grus japonensis (Red-crowned Crane), Ciconia ciconia (White Stork), Platalea minor (Black-faced Spoonbill)

Upo Wetland

 

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Location: Gyeongnam Province

Coordinates (lat, long): 35.18000, 128.41000

Area: 854 ha

Date of joining: 12 September 2008

Protection status: Protected Area

Other listings: Ramsar Site, Important Bird and Biodiversity Area

Important for Anatidae, Cranes, and Others

Important species

Anser fabalis (Bean Goose), Anas falcata (Falcated Teal), Anas formosa (Baikal Teal), Anser cygnoides (Swan Goose), Aythya baeri (Baer’s Pochard), Grus monacha (Hooded Crane), Grus vipio (White-naped Crane), Grus japonensis (Red-crowned Crane), Ciconia ciconia (White Stork), Platalea minor (Black-faced Spoonbill)

Nakdong Estuary

Location: Busan Metropolitan City

Coordinates (lat, long): 35.106141, 128.947787

Area: 8849 ha

Date of joining: 1 May 2009

Protection status: Natural Monument Protection Area

Other listings: Important Bird and Biodiversity Area

Important for Shorebirds, Anatidae, Cranes, and Others

Important species:

Charadrius alexandrinus (Kentish Plover), Numenius arquata (Curlew), Xenus cinereus (Terek Sandpiper), Heteroscelus brevipes (Gray-tailed Tattler), Calidris alba (Sanderling), Calidris pygmaea (Spoon-billed Sandpiper), Cygnus cygnus (Whooper Swan), Anser cygnoid (Swan Goose), Anser fabalis (Bean Goose), Tadorna tadorna (Common Shelduck), Anas falcata (Falcated Teal), Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard), Aythya ferina (Pochard), Bucephala clangula (Goldeneye), Grus vipio (White-naped Crane), Grus monacha (Hooded Crane), Ciconia boyciana (White Stork), Platalea minor (Black-faced Spoonbill), Haliaeetus albicilla (White-tailed Sea Eagle), Haliaeetus pelagicus (Steller’s Sea Eagle), Aquila heliaca (Imperial Eagle), Falco peregrinus (Peregrine Falcon), Locustella pleskei (Pleske’s Grasshopper Warbler), Phalacrocorax carbo (Great Cormorant), Egretta eulophotes (Chinese Egret), Larus argentatus (Herring Gull), Saundersilarus saundersi (Saunders’ Gull), Larus relictus (Relict Gull), Sterna albifrons (Little Tern)

Geum River Estuary

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